Toxicology
2000 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System,☆☆

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Characterization of participating centers

Of the 63 reporting centers, 59 submitted data for the entire year. Fifty-two of the 63 participating centers were certified as regional poison centers by the AAPCC in 2000. Annual center call volumes (human exposure cases only) ranged from 11,735 to 82,166 (mean 35,039) for centers participating for the entire year. Penetrance, calculated only for states that were completely served by centers participating in TESS, ranged from 5.6 to 16.7 exposures per 1,000 population with a mean of 8.0

Review of the data

A major revision of TESS data fields was implemented on January 1, 2000. Prior revisions occurred in 1984, 1985, and 1993. TESS can now capture an unlimited number of substances for each case, and centers are required to submit at least 3 substances for exposures involving 3 or more substances (previously only 2 substances could be coded for each case). As a result, the 2000 data include more substances implicated compared to 1999, reflecting a change in data collection practice rather than in

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The American Association of Poison Control Centers gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support of McNeil Consumer Healthcare, without which the compilation and production of this report would not have been possible.

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